Alabama drug test lab owner sent to prison for forging test results, costing parents custody of children

Big Freedia has dropped "Better Be," a new single from her upcoming Christmas record Smokin' Santa Christmas, featuring none other than Mobile, Alabama's finest, Flo Milli. A turned-up, high-octane track based around a steel drum sample, pinging synth stabs, and Freedia and Flo's nimble flows, it's a welcome change from the more staid Christmas fare making its way around lately.

The number of people currently hospitalized in Alabama due to the novel coronavirus surpassed 2,000 on Monday, marking the first time this has occurred since the virus was first identified in the state. Hospitalizations on Monday reached 2,079, up from 1,916 the day before.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 13-19:Dec. 13: Actor Dick Van Dyke is 95.

Better late than never! It might have taken a few months longer than he’d hoped, but Morgan Wallen made his “Saturday Night Live” debut over the weekend — and before he played his set, he appeared in a sketch making fun of himself.

Morgan Wallen made his Saturday Night Live debut over the weekend — and before he played his set, he appeared in a sketch making fun of himself.Wallen was originally scheduled to appear as the musical guest for the second episode of season 46 back in October, but was pulled after he was spotted on camera partying without a mask at a sizable party in Tuscaloosa, Alabama days before he was supposed to be on the show.In the sketch -- set at said party in Alabama — Wallen plays himself and is about

WASHINGTON – When Congressman-elect Barry Moore enters Congress early next year, he plans immediately to join the fight to keep President Trump in office, challenging Electoral College votes with Rep. Mo Brooks, a fellow Alabama Republican.

An active-duty soldier is facing criminal charges after his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son was struck and killed on a busy highway in Alabama after he allegedly forced the child to get out of the car in the rain and after dark as punishment. Bryan Starr, 35, told investigators he was driving near Fort Mitchell, Ala., when 5-year-old Austin Birdseye started to become “unruly” inside the vehicle.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Preliminary reports indicate that more than 5,000 Alabama public school students haven’t shown up for any sort of classes - virtual or in-person - state Education Superintendent Eric Mackey said.

Brittany Howard stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this week and played a Nina Simone cover – watch below.The performance came after the Alabama Shakes vocalist secured five Grammy nominations this week.Heading to Colbert on Tuesday night (November 24), Howard performed an impassioned. cover of Simone’s track ‘Revolution’, a song she has been covering live at pre-pandemic gigs.

When Chip Matthews heard the mail truck arriving on his sixth birthday, he rushed out — not knowing that he’d come back with a treasure. Outside the house, which was decorated with birthday balloons, mail carrier Tawanna Purter held a pile of boxes.

Chris Willman Music WriterBeyoncé leads the contenders for the 2021 Grammy Awards with nine — an unexpectedly high profile, given that the superstar didn’t even release a new album during the eligibility period. Her wealth of nods is followed by six apiece for Taylor Swift, Roddy Ricch and Dua Lipa.Brittany Howard, of Alabama Shakes fame, was close behind that grouping with five nominations for her solo debut.

Bruce Boynton was a civil rights activist whose 1960 landmark Supreme Court case inspired the iconic Freedom Rides.Boynton was a law student at Howard University when he was arrested while traveling home to Selma, Alabama for the holidays. He was dining at a bus station restaurant designated “whites only” and when he failed to leave when ordered to, Boynton was sent to jail for the night.

An Alabama man diagnosed with terminal lung cancer confessed Wednesday to killing another man 25 years ago, solving a cold case murder that had "nothing else to follow up on," according to authorities.

A 65-year-old Florida man found dead in Jackson County this week had been mauled by a pack of stray dogs, according to local police.  Donald Ray Allen's body was found on the side of a road in the Bascom area near the Alabama state line. Allen was reportedly out for a walk when he was attacked, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

The novel coronavirus is “out of control” in Alabama, warned a state health official this week.   Alabama has reported some 225,910 cases of COVID-19 to date, according to data from the state health department.The rolling daily average of new cases has increased over the past two weeks to 684, representing a 50% jump. Current estimates show that one in every 342 people in the state has tested positive for the virus in the past week alone.  “It’s out of control,” Dr.

Vengeful spouses are not a new element of true crime documentaries — but snakes are. HBO’s upcoming documentary “Alabama Snake” takes a look at one of Appalachia’s strangest crimes to date.

Sean Hannity accused citizens who teleconferenced into a meeting of the Wayne County (Mich.) Board of Canvassers this week of bullying and threatening two Republican members who initially refused to certify the county's vote totals. "You can't make this up," the "Hannity" host said of the callers.